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A lot of these scripts that come with MySQL and MariaDB are lacking some documentation. I have several instances of MariaDB running and I wanted to run this script on my 2nd instance, with its socket file in /run/mysqld/mysqld2.sock. Tried
man mysql_secure_installationandmysql_secure_installation --helpand looked here, but it did not mention any way to do this.However, it seems it just works with the same arguments as with
mysqlitself, so:mysql_secure_installation -S /run/mysqld/mysqld2.sockdid the trick!